eBook platform, Puboo surpasses 10,000 titles /Internet Watch

GMO Internet group company, paperboy&co announced that ebook publishing platform, Puboo surpassed 10,000 titles of user generated ebooks after eight months of its launch in 2010 June.

Among over 10,000 ebooks, about 70% are free. Puboo allows users to set a price of their ebooks. The most common price range is between 100 and 300 yen, which is cheaper than usual books. The most popular category is novels followed by picture books/nursery tales and manga.

Internet Watch 4/1/2011

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• Users can download ebooks on Puboo by PDF or ePub, which allows to read ebooks on many devices such as iPhone, Android, or Kindle. But feature phones are not available.